Images of Woman in Literature. by Holbrook, David:

New York and London: New York University NYU, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good+/Fine. Indexed. Wine cloth. Reading copy: Cracked front hinge, webbing shows through. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. Designer: Ken Venezio. Mostly focuses on Shakespeare characters. 295 pgs

New York University Press, 1989-12-01. Hardcover. Good.

New York University Press, 12/1/1989 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Good. 1.1000 in x 9.0000 in x 6.2000 in. EX LIBRARY BOOK

Some rubbing and soil to dustwrapper. VG., dustwrapper. Literary Criticism New York University Press New York (1989) orig.cloth 24x15cm, xi,295 pp. "How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D.H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile. Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his time. It is obvious, argues Holbrook, that Dickens idealized the father-daughter relationship, and indeed, any such relationship that was unsexual, like that of Tom Pinch and his sister--but why? Why, for example, is the image of woman so often associated with death, as in Great Expectations? Dickens's own struggles over relationships with women have been documented, but much less has been said about the unconscious elements behind these problems. Using recent developements in psychoanalytic… Read More